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...roll call vote on the steps of Sever—after the council had been evicted from its meeting room—defeated the bill 23 to 15, with seven abstentions. “The HCC has now been given a blank check,” Lurie said after his bill failed...
...make a movie about a rock-'n'-roll icon who didn't die young? The fables of Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, Johnny Ace, Eddie Cochran and Sam Cooke provided their own curtain lines: a plane or a car crash, a gunshot wound. Their early deaths at the top of their game built little legends--tragic portraits suitable for filming...
...running time) and with a persuasive authenticity. Ray hones his chops on the chitlin circuit, signs with Atlantic Records and starts fusing gospel with blues. The epochal What'd I Say--a group orgasm in 12-bar form--could have wed him to rock 'n' roll. But Charles was as voracious for all kinds of music as he was for women. That is, very...
...indeed. For Charles, business meant leaving his nurturing mentors at Atlantic for a cushy deal at another label. It meant firing a friend and keeping his women (and his drugs) away from his wife. Mainly, it meant diversifying his product: from R&B to rock 'n' roll and then to country, Big Band, America the Beautiful--whatever beguiled his ear. Ray Charles Inc. was a multimusical conglomerate...
...years, when all of Dartboard’s hyphenated contemporaries decide to settle down to enjoy marital bliss. In just ten years, kindergartens may be overrun with little Joey Hertzl-Bunzl-Hepler-Smiths and Mary Eagle-Lee-Bobbitt-Okionobes. There will be no more naptime, because roll call will take the entire...